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🗓️ 28 February 2025
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0:00.0 | The new cycle is moving so fast right now and the information is so big and these stories are so gigantic that just trying to cover them is, I feel like an octopus, just trying to grab these things with catchers mitts. |
0:12.0 | But the momentum is continuing. |
0:14.0 | Right from when Kennedy was sworn in till now, we have a lot of momentum going on. |
0:20.0 | And the moment he was sworn in, we, we have a lot of momentum going on. And the moment he was sworn in, |
0:22.2 | we had the Louisiana Health Department. They released this. This is actually a CNN headline. Louisiana |
0:27.8 | Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination. This is all vaccines, |
0:32.2 | not just COVID. It says in this article, the state of Louisiana and LDH have historically |
0:36.3 | promoted vaccines for vaccine |
0:37.6 | preventable illnesses through our parish health units, community health fairs, partnerships, and media |
0:42.7 | campaigns. Abram, as Ralph Abram, he's the Surgeon General, wrote in a memo addressed to LDH, |
0:47.9 | team members and obtained by CNN. He went on to say, while we encourage each patient to discuss |
0:53.6 | the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider, LDH will no longer promote mass vaccination. |
0:59.8 | That's a huge development for a couple of reasons. |
1:03.5 | One, because they talk about the risks and the benefits of vaccination. |
1:09.0 | That was a conversation that was never had by health departments. |
1:12.2 | The risks were not, they didn't talk about it. |
1:14.4 | They also talked about encouraging the patient to talk to their doctor. |
1:18.0 | So they're pushing the people back into the doctor-patient relationship. |
1:21.7 | Another huge thing from a public health department standpoint. |
1:26.1 | Wow. |
1:26.6 | I mean, it's really amazing and in some ways so important, right? |
1:32.3 | And someone will scream, oh my God, Louisiana's gone, you know, anti-vax. |
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